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I'm frustrated because of some issues I'm having with the streaming of videos and tv channels and I think lowering the quality of the stream will help. It keeps freezing with the audio still playing and constantly pixeling.

I'm tired of trying different configurations in the prefrerences input and codecs menus but absolutely nothing changes.

I want to change maybe the bitrate or resolution of streaming videos for them to play smoother but nothing I find online has told me how. Can anyone help?

It's not clear what you're trying to do: do you want to broadcast a stream or do you have troubles for receiving and playing them ?

In the latter case, and because you can not lower the quality of what you're receiving, you need to make sure you have enough bandwidth available (nowadays many streams are over 1 Mbps, some HD streams are around 5-6 Mbps), the network is not busy (for instance in case of a shared network or Wi-Fi), your PC doesn't have hardware troubles (some Windows troubleshooting tools: DPC Latency Checker and LatencyMon), to use recent drivers and hardware acceleration may also help.

Within VLC you can also increase caching and test some video and audio options:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 55#p383655
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 27#p383327

Thanks for the response and I'm sorry I wans't clear enough.

The troubles are when recieving. I'm disappointed to hear I can't lower the quality since my bandwidth isn't that great and I haven't got the money to get more RAM or whatever to get more speed and play HD stuff better.

I've been changing caching options and it does help in a way. I'll be checking out the tools, thanks again!